Nothing new there. TxDot pretty much exist to build infrastructure which has a primary purpose of vastly increasing the property values of Texas’ millionaire good ol boys club. Look no further than the Grand Parkway. We can’t pay for schools, but we can spend billions building highways through the countryside that will make a few select landowners even richer. Hell, we can’t even maintain the roads we have, but we TxDot never stops being the corporate welfare piggy bank for the well-connected – land owners, road construction companies, and engineers, especially in Houston Metro area. If you’ve lived here long enough, you know that the MetroRail and Commuter rails would have been built 20 years ago, except that doing so would have used funds that Bob Lanier, Billy Burge, and their major landowning cronies had already “decided” to use to enrich themselves with by building more highways, toll roads, and infrastructure through their own lands. If we had real journalists in this city, they wouldn’t still be getting away with it to this day.